WG-Gesucht Scraper — German Shared Apartments & Rentals

Extract WG rooms, 1-room apartments, full apartments, and houses from wg-gesucht.de — Germany's #1 platform for shared apartments and student housing.

Built for relocators, real-estate analysts, rental-arbitrage scouts, student-housing services, and price-monitoring tools in the DACH region.

What you get

• Structured listing JSON (15 fields, up to 19 with detail-enrichment)
• No login required — only public data
• Verified-flag + online status captured for every listing
• Multi-city support in a single run
• Apify DE Residential Proxy baked in — beats wg-gesucht's bot-detection
• Pre-built dataset Overview in Apify Console for instant inspection

Why this scraper (vs. alternatives)

	Build your own	Generic scraper	This actor
Maintenance	You patch every site change	Often broken	Patched on every update
Multi-city in one run	Manual loop	No	Native
Detail enrichment	Manual	No	Single flag
DE residential proxy	Costs $50+/mo	Bring your own	Included

Input

Field	Type	Description
cities	string[]	Cities to search (default: ["Berlin"])
listingType	enum	wg-zimmer (default), 1-zimmer-wohnungen, wohnungen, haeuser
startUrls	string[]	Direct wg-gesucht URLs (overrides cities + listingType)
minRent / maxRent	int	Filter by rent in EUR
minSize	int	Minimum size in m²
fetchDetails	bool	Visit each listing for full description, all photos, contact name
maxResults	int	Per city/URL (default 100, 0 = unlimited)
delaySeconds	float	Polite delay between requests (default 1.0)
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy / custom (defaults to DE residential)

Example Input

{
  "cities": ["Berlin", "München", "Hamburg"],
  "listingType": "wg-zimmer",
  "minRent": 300,
  "maxRent": 700,
  "minSize": 10,
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}

Output (sample)

{
  "ad_id": "10748919",
  "url": "https://www.wg-gesucht.de/wg-zimmer-in-Berlin-Friedrichshain.10748919.html",
  "title": "Friedrichshain prime location // All inclusive furnished luxury room",
  "rent_eur": 999.0,
  "size_sqm": 15.0,
  "rooms": "4er WG | Berlin Friedrichshain | Revaler Straße 7",
  "district": null,
  "move_in_date": "01.06.2026",
  "image_url": "https://img.wg-gesucht.de/...small.PNG",
  "verified": true,
  "online_status": "Verifiziert Urban Elite Online: 4 Minuten",
  "search_city": "Berlin",
  "listing_type": "wg-zimmer",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-28T14:00:00+00:00",
  "full_description": "...",
  "contact_name": "Urban Elite",
  "facts": {"Verfügbar von": "01.06.2026", "Online seit": "4 Minuten"},
  "all_images": ["https://...", "https://..."]
}

full_description, contact_name, facts, all_images only with fetchDetails: true.

Use cases

• Real-estate analytics — track average rent per district over time
• Relocation services — monitor matching listings for clients in target cities
• Rental arbitrage — find under-priced 1-room apartments
• Student-housing platforms — aggregate WG offers across university cities
• Market research — trend analysis for the German shared-housing market
• Price-comparison tools — combine with immowelt + kleinanzeigen for full coverage

Pricing

Pay-Per-Event:

• $0.015 per listing
• $0.00005 actor-start fee

Example runs

Use case	Listings	Cost
Quick scan (1 city, WG rooms)	50	$0.75
Daily monitoring (3 cities, 100/each)	300	$4.50
Weekly DACH market sweep (10 cities)	1,000	$15.00

Tips

• Keep the DE residential proxy (default) — wg-gesucht has aggressive bot-detection
• fetchDetails: false is much faster for bulk indexing
• For German cities with umlauts (München, Köln), pass them with the umlauts intact
• Schedule daily runs from the Apify Console for fresh leads
• Combine with our immowelt-scraper and kleinanzeigen-scraper for full DACH rental coverage

FAQ

Q: Can I filter by specific districts?
A: Use the startUrls field with a wg-gesucht URL that already includes district filters from their UI.

Q: How recent are listings?
A: Real-time. Listings posted within the last few minutes will appear.

Q: Will my IP get blocked?
A: No — uses Apify's DE residential proxy by default.

Q: Do you scrape the apartment seeker ads (Gesuche)?
A: No — this actor focuses on rental offers (Angebote). Reach out if you need the inverse.

Related actors

• kleinanzeigen-scraper — German marketplace listings
• immowelt-scraper — German real estate
• anwalt-de-scraper — German lawyers
• jameda-scraper — German doctors

Legal & compliance

Only scrapes publicly accessible listings. You are responsible for:

• Respecting wg-gesucht.de's Terms of Service
• GDPR compliance when storing landlord/contact data
• Not republishing scraped content in ways that infringe IP rights

Support & feature requests

Open an issue on the Actor page or contact via Apify Console messaging. Custom features welcome.